FDA Seizes Prescriptions Sent to US from Abroad

FDA Seizes Prescriptions Sent to US from Abroad (Source: Boston Globe)

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The Food and Drug Administration is seizing prescription drugs shipped to US patients from overseas under I-Save Rx, the program sponsored by five states to help residents obtain low-cost medicines.

At least 54 customers said the FDA confiscated orders sent from Britain since late January, said Tony Howard, president of CanaRx Services Inc., the program's Tecumseh, Ontario-based supplier. The orders were worth $13,000, Howard said.

"I think the FDA's in collusion with the drug companies," Philip Flavin, 57, a disabled former respiratory therapist from Glenview, Ill., said.

Instead of receiving his order of Merck & Co.'s bone-strengthening drug Fosamax in January, he got a letter from the FDA saying the package had been seized by the US Post Office.